Storm Ventures was founded by a seasoned group of industry veterans with the common vision of sharing our collective experience, passion and energy to help talented and driven entrepreneurs build great companies of enduring value. With over $500 million under management, Storm Ventures focuses on seed and early stage information technology companies which best leverages our operational experience and global network. Our limited partners include many prominent financial institutions, as well as over a hundred senior executives who have had successful careers in technology companies.

The investment focus of the Storm team is in Information Technology and Networking. We tend to map investment opportunities into one or more major themes: Bandwidth, Mobility or Intelligence, since we believe these are the key drivers that are transforming the way information is being used, shared, delivered, and protected.

We put a big emphasis on understanding who the end user customers are, and what compelling value new companies can bring to them. We focus specifically on three types of customers: Service Providers, Enterprise, and Consumer. As a result, we spend a great deal of our time networking with thought and market leaders in each of these customer segments, many of which are Storm Limited Partners.

The investments we make will range from components or semiconductors, to software and services, to systems companies. Some of the broad categories we invest in and continue to be interested in are Wireless, Security, Enterprise Data Center, Software and Hardware, Storage, Virtualization (Networking, Computing, and Storage), the “Digital Home,” Software as a Service, and Web 2.0 Software, Services and Applications.